How would you react to a gold & mats wipe at each expansion?

Expansion day hits.

BAM!

Zero balance in your bank account. Maybe come up with a lore reason, maybe not, either way everyone has to rebuild their bankroll. Nothing allowed be on the AH within 48 hours of the wipe. All banks cleared of every stackable item, no food, no mats, no potions, maybe just a few "flavor" items saved by being flagged - Noggenfogger for example.

How would you react?

(Just throwing out fun hypotheticals here, this one I like because frankly many people feel "priced out" of raiding. Gems and enchants costing an arm and a leg on many servers.)

Ummm... pissed? It would mean that I don't bother doing anything within the economy to make money after the last raid of an xpac drops. I have enough to buy gems and whatnot, so why bother? I don't think that would be good.

I wouldn't mind it too much personally but it'd piss a ton of people off who've worked hard.

It'd make the market a lot more dynamic with the fresh economy for sure, with people rushing to find gaps in the market and play the trends of certain items.

I do think they have to do something eventually, the gap in gold between players is becoming a massive massive thing with many players having 500k+ gold and others on 15kg. At some point it'll have an effect on player's ability to raid

Zero balance in your bank account. Maybe come up with a lore reason, maybe not, either way everyone has to rebuild their bankroll. Nothing allowed be on the AH within 48 hours of the wipe. All banks cleared of every stackable item, no food, no mats, no potions, maybe just a few "flavor" items saved by being flagged - Noggenfogger for example.

How would you react?

(Just throwing out fun hypotheticals here, this one I like because frankly many people feel "priced out" of raiding. Gems and enchants costing an arm and a leg on many servers.)

Sorry but how does one enchant that costs 3k (Only if youre caring about how your raiding at that) and a few 10-100g ones cost a arm and a leg? considering you wont get upgrades every week, its not hard to make it back

How can you be priced out of raiding? Outside of the occasional super expensive leg enchant, you can make all of the gold you need for a full week of raiding literally in a matter of minutes, if not seconds, by doing, say... a profession cooldown, once per day.

A big huge mat/gold wipe would be utterly pointless anyways if you have such a gold-making problem, because those who bother to make gold will quickly outpace you even then. Your 'even playing field' of zeroed out gold accounts will last right up until the very moment the AH opens back up, at which point your laziness will cause you to be broke again, while everybody else makes gold.

I'm casual casual casual I don't play the AH and I don't have any gathering professions and I never have issues gemming and enchanting all my shit. I've never felt "priced out" of raiding in my entire career. Vanilla could be pretty annoying with having to stack 8 million consumables but you didn't need that shit to clear stuff, we cleared MC with literally no flasks or pots or scrolls.

I actually did this in a sense with Mists of Pandaria. I sent all but 500 gold from Faroth to an alt so he went into Pandaria with only 500 gold. I did all the quests on Pandaria and by the time I was max level and had gear capable of entering LFR from dailies and heroics, I was around 25,000 gold again. I never transferred any gold back to him and I think he has around 50K last I checked and I've not been playing the last few months.

I sell greens way lower than anyone else on the AH, I don't play the market. I just do quests, sell trash, and sell greens....

It would have less impact than people think, imo. O_o

"There is good and evil in this world; we must find the black and white in the gray."

would go absolute ape shit, and end sub.
Currently I have close to a Million in gold, and 4 guild banks filled with items spread across 2 realms.
And I know people with much, much more than that, im talking people with 5 Million+ in gold alone.